New England affection, to Pennsylvania, her mild laws and her equitable and liberal administration of public affairs.

We not unfrequently hear from the pulpit an aphorism which we quote again, "That man proposes, and God disposes;" or, in the language of the Bard:

"There is a Divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough hew them as we will."

What many regarded as an evil to be ever deplored, has proved, in the wise and beneficent dispensations of Providence, like charity, a double blessing; the settlers deriving widely extended comfort from well cultivated farms, and many of them ease and affluence; while the Commonwealth beholds a district of country, most of it in a state of nature, repulsively rugged from its stony hills, rocky mountains and dense forests, now smiling with cultivation, and teeming with a loyal and happy people, the true wealth of a State. The hardy sons of New England, trained to labour and economy on the rocky fields of their native homes, could alone have been led to see in the forests of the Susquehanna, a country which industry could render" a land flowing with milk and honey:" But such they have made it. Those, then, were the proper pioneers to settle such a wilderness. The rich alluvial lands along the streams served to attract sufficient leading spirits to the enterprise, and all the concurring circumstances, éven the blood-stirring romance of the conflicts and woes of the early settlers, tended to awaken and keep alive, throughout the eastern States, thoughts of Wyoming, and increased instead of checking emigration.

A great and noble duty on the part of the New England inhabitants on the Susquehanna and their descendants, of ever abiding obligation, remains to be performed: namely, by their industry, economy, attention to the cause of religion, and the education of their children, to elevate the Yankee character in public estimation, and by their obedience to the wise and salutary laws of Pennsylvania; by their earnest devotion; by every liberal and honorable means to promote the welfare of the State; to conciliate the regard of the good old Commonwealth, flowing in so generous a stream towards them, that both may regard the day as blessed which made them one.

NOTE. It should be borne in mind, that the landholders, frequently spoken of with asperity, as the stimulators of the Assembly, of Patterson and Armstrong, to unjust measures against the Wyoming people, were generally claimants under leases from the Proprietors, or warrants of 1784. The landholders under warrants of 1793 and '94-the Tilghmans, Drinkers, Francises, etc., having no special interest at Wyoming, in that early time, are in no respect implicated in the censure.

RECAPITULATION.

List of Persons murdered by Savages at Westmoreland, other than those who fell the day of the battle.

Wm. Crooks, near Tunkhannock.

Miner Robbins, four miles below Tunkhannock. Benj. Harding, Stukely Harding, James Hadsell, James Hadsell, Jr., Wm. Martin, of Exter; John Gardiner, killed on his way up the river; Mr.Finch, Kingston, near Shoemaker's Mills.

These before the battle.

Leach and St. John, near Atherton's, Providence; Mr, Hickman, his wife and child, near Tripp's, Providence.

Timothy Keys and Mr. Hocksey, Abington, six or seven miles north of Liggett's Gap.

A crazy man below Wilkesbarre.

John Abbott, Isaac Williams, of Wilkesbarre.
John Utley, Elisha Utley, Diah Utley and their
mother, Mrs. Utley, opposite Beach Grove,
Nescopeck Township.

Philip Goss and Capt. Carr, below Beach's.
Nathan Kingsley, Wilkesbarre.

Jackson and Lester, taken at Nanticoke, brought
up near Christman's Tavern, there shot down
and scalped.

John Perkins, Shawney.

Isaac Inman, Hanover; William Jameson, Han

over.

Isaac Tripp, Esq., and Jonathan Slocum, Wilkes-
barre.

[Old Mr. Hagaman, wounded same time, and
escaped.]
Abel Dewey, Robert Alexander, Amos Parker,

below Salem, on the opposite side of the river. Elihu Williams, Lieut. Asahel Buck, Stephen Pettebone, Kingston.

[Frederick Follett, speared, scalped and left for dead.]

April 24.

1780. March 27.

April.

1782. July 8

Capt. Davis, Lieut. Jones, and three men, on
Wilkesbarre mountain.

Upson, Hanover.

Mrs. Rosewell Franklin.
John Jameson, Asa Chapman.

Thirteen men in Nescopeck Valley, now Co-
nyngham, when the attack was made on Capt.
Myers.

Making sixty-one. It is probable there were ten or twelve more; but we have not been able to ascertain the facts, sufficiently, to fix the dates or name them. The last thirteen being armed and in military array, may rather be regarded as slain in battle, than murdered.

RECAPITULATION.

List of Persons taken Prisoners during the War, from Westmoreland.

Daniel Carr,

Luke Swetland and Joseph Blanchard.
Samuel Carey, from the battle ground.

Isaac Tripp, Jr., in Providence.
Wilcox and Pierce, near Tunkhannock.
Mr. Kingsley.

Frances Slocum, Young Kingsley, and a colored
girl, servant of J. Slocum, of Wilkesbarre.
Michael Kelley, and daughter; the girl, it was

said, married a British officer in Canada. James Bidlack, and two others, of Shawney. Two of Maj. Powell's men, Wilkesbarre mountain.

Bennett, Son and Hammond.

Abm. Pike, Jonah Rogers, Huntington, Van
Campen, from below.

1780. Dec. 6.

1781. Sept.

1782. Sept. 12.

Benjamin Harvey, Elisha Harvey, Nathan Bullock, Jonathan Frisby, James Frisby, Manassah Cady, George Palmer, George Palmer Ransom, of Shawney.

Jonathan Smith.

Rosewell Franklin, Jr., Arnold Franklin and
Mrs. Franklin; and the Spring following,
four others, children of Rosewell Franklin, of
Hanover.

Daniel McDowal, Shawney.

Our list embraces only forty-two. The number, I am persuaded, did not amount to less than sixty-probably more.

RETROSPECT.

Members from Westmoreland to the Connecticut Assembly.

It would seem that in April, 1774, four Representatives to the Assembly, were chosen or appointed. Among the votes recorded is this: "That Zebulon Butler, Esq., Capt. Timothy Smith, Christopher Avery, and John Jenkins, be appointed Agents from the town of Westmoreland, to lay our circumstances before the General Assembly, in May next. Sept. 30, 1774."

Capt. Butler and Mr. Joseph Sluman, Agents to
New Haven, April 1775.

Sept. 19. 1775. Capt. Zebulon Butler, and Major Ezekiel Pierce, We find no appointment to the May Sesssion, 1776.

Oct. 1776.

May 1777.

May 1778.

Oct. 1778. May 1779. May 1780. Oct. 1780. May 1781. Oct. 1781. May 1782. Oct. 1782.

Col. Zebulon Butler, Col. Nathan Denison.
Mr. John Jenkins, Mr. Isaac Tripp.

Nathan Denison, Anderson Dana.

Col. Nathan Denison, Lieutenant Asahel Buck.
Col. Nathan Denison, Deacon John Hurlbut.
Mr. John Hurlbut, Mr. Jonathan Fitch.
Capt. Nathan Denison, Mr. John Hurlbut.
John Hurlbut, Jonathan Fitch, Esq.
Mr. Obadiah Gore, Capt. John Franklin.
Mr. Obadiah Gore, Jonathan Fitch.
Mr. Obadiah Gore, Jonathan Fitch.

EXPLANATION OF MAP No. I.

1. Massachusetts and Connecticut, with a general view of their Charter Claims, west. 2. The Connecticut County and Town of Westmoreland, from the Delaware west to the Fort Stanwix line; which sent Representatives to the Assembly at Hartford and New Haven from 1774 to 1783.

3. The north and south line, one hundred and twenty miles west of the line ten miles east of the Susquehanna, indicates the western limits of the Connecticut Susquehanna Company's Indian purchase at Albany, in 1754. Nearly to this line ranges of Towns five miles square were granted and surveyed; the five most western in M'Kean county, named Lorana, Conde, Turrenne, Newtown and Addison, are designated.

4. The Western Reserve, or New Connecticut, in Ohio, being one hundred and twenty miles in length, the width of the Connecticut Charter claim, confirmed to that State on the final adjustment of Western Land Claims; the United States having accepted the cession from Connecticut of the territory west to the Mississippi. Five hundred thousand acres of this reservation, called "Fire Lands," were granted to New London, Fairfield, Norwalk, and other towns burnt by the enemy. The remainder being sold, is the source of the noble School Fund of that State.

5. About seven millions of acres of the beautiful Genesee country, being, with slight reservations, all the territory in New York west from a line beginning at the eighty-second mile stone from the Delaware, on the northern boundary of Pennsylvania, running north to the British possessions-confirmed by compromise between New York and Massachusetts in 1786, to the latter State-together with 230,400 acres east of that line.